Shivani Bafna & Shyam Shah

The Celebration

Shivani Bafna is a familiar face to audiences far beyond India — an Instagram creator, television host and entrepreneur based in the United States, and the founder of Behind Every Dream, the platform and podcast she launched during the 2020 lockdown to speak honestly about the struggle that sits behind every success. Her partner, Shyam Shah, proposed in the most cinematic way imaginable: standing in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. When the time came to choose where they would marry, the decision was personal rather than practical — Jaipur, the very city where Shivani's own parents had been married years before.

What followed was four days at Fairmont Jaipur, each one its own world. It opened quietly with a seventy-five-guest welcome dinner at 1135 AD inside Amber, before the celebration began to build — a mehndi on the terrace of Shivani's grandmother's home, then a larger 'Turkish Paradise' mehndi where Shyam stopped the room with a surprise flash-mob performance. The sangeet turned the couple's history into theatre, a full Bollywood-Broadway production that staged their love story for everyone who had travelled to be there.

The wedding morning belonged to a single dress. Shivani wore a peachy-pink Tarun Tahiliani lehenga heavy with Swarovski crystals — the first bridal lehenga she had ever tried on, back in 2019, purely for fun, and never quite forgot. Following a tradition the family kept throughout, every woman of the house walked in alongside her father, and Shivani made her own entrance on her father's arm before the pheras on Fairmont's palace grounds.

For DreamzKrraft, the brief was as specific as the couple themselves: dance-forward, Bollywood-infused and unmistakably personal. Turning that vision into four consecutive days of distinct, fully immersive events — each with its own theme, look and choreography — meant holding design, planning and on-ground coordination together under one roof, so that a celebration built for an influencer's audience still felt intimate to the families living it.